Accused of rape and sexual assault by a number of ladies, Patrick Bruel was indicted by 4 investigating judges this Wednesday on the courtroom of Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine). In accordance with the prosecutor’s request, the decide of freedoms and detention additionally determined to position him in pre-trial detention.
The general public prosecutor of Nanterre had “requested the opening of a judicial investigation in opposition to him and his indictment for acts of rape, tried rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment regarding 9 victims”. These 9 information span between 2000 and 2019.
Amongst these 9 victims, 4 filed a criticism with a civil get together, particularly on information which had beforehand been the topic of a classification, specified the prosecution.
The procedures regarding 13 different folks denouncing rapes, tried rapes, sexual assaults and sexual harassment dedicated between September 1992 and September 2008 had been additionally “joined to the judicial data file”. Though the information “appeared lined by the statute of limitations at this stage”, detailed the prosecution.
Earlier than being offered to the judges, the 67-year-old artist spent 48 hours in police custody, a regime below which he was positioned Monday morning. He was questioned by investigators from the Parisian judicial police about sexual violence denounced by 13 ladies, the Nanterre prosecutor’s workplace indicated.
Throughout his police custody, the artist denied all the costs in opposition to him, specifies BFMTVciting a supply near the investigation. “I’ll have been heavy-handed, I’m nonetheless making an attempt, however I’ve at all times accepted a no,” the artist advised his family members, in line with feedback reported to the information channel.
